Another good story from the region (link here)

Basically the region of Saddam Hussein has left the country poor in information, especially technical/medical news. Anyway US military personnel launched a drive to request medical texts for the region of Tikrit. The drive has proven so successful that overflow is reaching other areas of Iraq. I am going to talk to our local used bookstore and see if i can get them to ship some of the used texts to Iraq. Not surprisingly, there are a ton of really good medical texts available here at the med center; unfortunately each book costs 50-100 bucks.